"...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting"

-- Will Schwalbe

#Teacher Quotes #Cancer Quotes #School Quotes

“My first debate in high school--"Resolved: Girls are no good"--and I won!”
“I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.”
“... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.”
“As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.”
“The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.”
“It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.”

Source : Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford (2008). “Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century”, p.45, Penguin
“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.
“Taste everything, but swallow only what fits.”

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